Projects

4 items under this folder.

  • Still Yours: a doctoral researcher's guide to AI

    A book written with Benita Olivier for postgraduate researchers, on using AI without giving up the development a research degree exists to produce. It takes seriously the question researchers are already asking: why bother doing a research degree when AI can produce much of the work? We think the answer is that, while a thesis is the artefact, the researcher is the point. The practical middle is organised by the kind of relationship a researcher has with AI rather than by research stage: thinking partner, research assistant, writing collaborator, mediator of relationships, project manager. Springer Nature, expected November 2026.

  • The research harness

    A structured specification of an AI agent's operating context in doctoral research. The harness names seven components — knowledge base, interpretive permissions, tools, authority, scope register, process record, and amendment protocol — so that a researcher working with an AI agent stays the analyst, judge, and author of their own inquiry. Published as a preprint and a one-page guide, now developing into a tested intervention.

  • Path

    Career progression, by design. Path treats professional development as a direction you choose, not a filing cabinet for what you've already done. Pick a standard to aim at — a promotion, a fellowship, a regulator's CPD requirement — gather evidence as you go, and watch a substantiated case for your next step build itself. One model serves CPD audits, fellowship and promotion applications, regulator validation, and student portfolios alike. A hosted prototype is live at pathcpd.com, in closed pilot and heading toward a commercial build.

  • Vertex

    A curriculum knowledge graph that turns programme documentation into queryable infrastructure. Curriculum structure, learning outcomes, assessment alignment, and regulatory standards are modelled as a graph staff can interrogate in plain language — turning quality-assurance and compliance checks that take weeks into ones that take minutes. A Snapplify product I work on as a partner and consultant.